Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , if we assume a simple deterministic relationship between the social and religious orders ( as anthropologists all too often do ) , we can expect that Nuer religion similarly extends , as it were into the skies , its own secular lineage structure . |
| 2 | And , no it were all bloody big grey streaks and that on me , it were on the sheets . |
| 3 | The men and women who made it were among the friends who welcomed us to Nigeria and Ghana . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 5 | Then , with the coffee and barmcakes running low it was onto the finals . |
| 6 | Elisabetta was asking her something ; it was about the fireworks last year in the city , off the old harbour wall where they had reflected in the sea . |
| 7 | It was about the difficulties experienced by the writer , especially the major writer , in prevailing economic conditions , and I took as examples Eliot , Pound and Herbert Read . |
| 8 | It was about the strobes . |
| 9 | It was about the supporters ' campaign in the last |
| 10 | I did n't tell you before because it was about the rags . ’ |
| 11 | I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost . ’ |
| 12 | Oh that would have been I think it was between the wars , I think between the time of the world wars . |
| 13 | It was between the wars in 1933 that Gavin Morton became sole partner . |
| 14 | ‘ It was between the movies and coming here , ’ adds Andrene , removing her T-shirt , rubbing Samantha 's thigh . |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't have thought it was beyond the realms of possibility . ’ |
| 16 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 17 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 18 | By the time the shops are full of Thunderbirds toys again , the craze will be over — as it was with the Turtles . |
| 19 | But if it 's like it was with the others , it wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 20 | We saw how it was with the plants and the seeds , and the birds and their eggs but the animals God made could not make nests and lay eggs , because they were so much larger . |
| 21 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
| 22 | It was at a jewellers ’ in Milan and could be retrieved for a certain sum . |
| 23 | And it was at the trekkers ' hut eight days before that we 'd met our porters with their dzos , Dzos — pronounced ‘ Joes ’ — are great hairy pack animals , a cross between yaks and cows . |
| 24 | It was at the mechanics was n't it ? |
| 25 | The likes of Polanski , Nicholson and Hopper all talked freedom — even if it was at the movies — and that was music to the ears of those who followed the anti-war , hippie-inspired trend of throwing off inhibitions , of which there were plenty of public demonstrations when the beautiful people gathered , be it Los Angeles , New York , London or Paris . |
| 26 | It was at the menders ' yesterday . |
| 27 | This time it was at the hands of Grimsby Town . |
| 28 | In October Bassingbourn had become the home of 231 ( Mosquito ) OCU and 237 ( Meteor ) OCU and it was on the Meteors that the initial staff work-up was done , the first Canberras did not arrive until the following February . |
| 29 | It was on the greens that Lyle continues to suffer . |
| 30 | But it was on the greens that Willie came into his own . |